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VSCPA Educational Foundation Awards $45,000 in College Scholarships

The VSCPA Educational Foundation recently selected its college scholarship recipients for the 2014–2015 academic year. The VSCPA Educational Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting business and accounting education, rewarding academic excellence and encouraging students to pursue promising careers as CPAs.

This year, the Foundation awarded $45,000 in undergraduate, graduate and doctoral scholarships to 24 accounting college students across Virginia. The Foundation awarded 11 named scholarships.

Scholarship applicants must be currently enrolled or have been accepted in an accounting program at a Virginia college or university. Other selection criteria for the awards include overall academic performance, entry essay, faculty recommendation(s) and community and/or extracurricular activities.

The 2014–2015 scholarship recipients are:

VSCPA Minority Scholarship ($1,000)
Chanell Harris of Philadelphia, Hampton University
Raven McGriff of Lancaster, S.C., Virginia State University
Shai Sumpter of Newport News, Norfolk State University